“I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.”

“To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.”

“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly”

“I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.”

“He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is thereason that I don't believe anything he has told me.”

“Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.”

“The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.”